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fingerfuck
noun

an act of masturbation of the vagina or anus.

[
1884
Randiana
31: The easy transition from a kiss to a feel, from a feel to a finger frig, and eventually by a more natural sequence to a gentle insertion of the jock.]
1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
77:
Finger fuck…n
. Stimulation of the female sex organs with the finger.
1978
J. Webb
Fields of Fire
228: This bastard wants to kill me for a damn fingerfuck.
1999
S. Rushdie
Ground beneath her Feet
xiv. 443: Sometimes she lazily played at adolescent sex, all finger-fucks and blow-jobs; more often she just came at you like Octopussy, all arms and legs and whoops-a-daisy.
2005
“Noire”
Candy Licker
viii. 78: I told them all about the finger fuck he gave me on the dance floor.

fingerfuck
verb

to masturbate the vagina or anus [of].

a
1793
R. Burns
Merry Muses
29: She m—s like reek thro’ a’ the week,/But finger f—s on Sunday, O.
ca
1866
Romance of Lust
197: Anything but finger-fucking.
a
1890–91
J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley
Slang & Its Analogues
II 398:
Finger-fucking
…masturbation (said of women only).
1916
H. N. Cary
Slang of Venery
I 84:
Finger fucking
—to induce a sexual spasm in a woman by digitation.
1921
in E. Cray
Erotic Muse
195: There she saw her lovin’ boy/finger-fucking Nellie Bly.
1945–48
Marianas Collection
(unpaged): I started finger fucking myself.
1964
in H. Huncke
Huncke’s Journal
4: Licking—eating—jerking off and finger fucking.
1965
C. Bukowski
Letter
(Feb.–Mar.) in
Screams from Balcony: Selected Letters
(1998) 135: Who knows about the boss finger-fucking the secretary in the stock room?
1968
P. Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint
143: She wants you to finger-fuck her
shikse
cunt till she faints.
1970
R. Byrne
Memories non-Jewish Childhood
157: I get tired of finger-fucking Wanda Farney all the time.
1970
G. Cain
Blueschild Baby
53: Boy and girl flirting in hall shadowkiss and finger fuck.
1971
H. Dahlskog
Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage
23:
Fingerfuck, v. Vulgar.
To arouse (someone) sexually by vaginal or rectal stimulation with the finger.
1976
J. Johnson
Oriental Festival
139: I’m gonna…slip my finger inside your hot ass.… Maybe I should give you a little finger fucking.
1983
Playboy
(Aug.) 88: He claims that he is obsessed with sex, that he has done it with animals, that he’s finger-fucked his cat.
1991
M. Dibdin
Dirty Tricks
(1992) 103: Despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line.
1996
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Apr. 23) 74: Then he finger-fucks her on a roller coaster.
2000
New Yorker
(Sept. 4) 48/3: Then you got guys standing around…talking about how they finger-fucked you and your yin-yang made their hands smell like tuna fish.
2007
J. McCourt
Now Voyagers
xi. 512: “Finger-fuck me then, you heavenly boy-man,” she brayed to be heard in the hall.

fist-fuck
verb

Especially
Homosexuals
. to insert the hand into the rectum or vagina for sexual stimulation. Also as
noun
.

[
1971
(see quote at
FIST-FUCKING
noun
definition 2).]
1972
B. Rodgers
Queens’ Vernacular
81:
Fist fuck
. The extended process of inserting a fist to the elbow anally.
1978
R. Price
Ladies’ Man
224: That guy’s into getting fist fucked…right up the ass. Right up to the elbow. Can you believe that?
1978
L. Kramer
Faggots
216: You probably still want me to fist-fuck you, don’t you?.… I could never understand why you liked to get fist-fucked and don’t like to get regular fucked.
1984
H. Gould
Cocktail
91: He liked to put on mesh stockings…and get fist-fucked.
1991
J. Barth
Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
368: He aspired one day to fist-fuck Sindbad the
Sailor in his half an ass.
1995
New Statesman
(Aug. 4) 41: Each month’s curse earned her a beating on the bedpost, a fistfuck for failure, exposure on the platform at the march past.
1995
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Dec. 12) 31: For a grand finale she got fistfucked by a ring-wearing “gypsy” lady while deep-throating a 13-inch dick.
2002
W. Self
Dorian
x. 144: “His gut,” he said of one patient, “was punctured by some guy fist-fucking him.”

fist-fucker
noun

1.
a man or boy who is a frequent masturbator.—used contemptuously.

1962
J. O. Killens
Then We Heard the Thunder
168 [refers to WWII]: Corporal Solly, you old-fashioned fist-fucker, why don’t you come out of that orderly room and get some air in your ass sometimes?
1969
H. S. Thompson
Letter
(Dec. 6) in
Fear & Loathing in America
(2000) 223: Never, under any circumstances, have I been shit on so totally as I was in the course of this Playboy/Killy thing. That whole goddamn magazine is a conspiracy of anemic masturbators.… scurvy fist-fuckers to the last man.
1974
E. Thompson
Tattoo
111: I feel plumb sorry for you poor Wichita fistfuckers…got nothin to fuck there but their fists.
1984
A. R. Sample
Racehoss
266 [refers to 1960s]: Nelly Nuthin, Proud Walker, Bow Wow, and Fistfucker were…dunces.
2006
U. Chatterjee
Weight Loss
150: Spilling his precious seed six times a day like a fourteen-year-old fistfucker.

2
.
Homosexuals
. a practitioner of
FIST-FUCKING
, definition 2.

1972
B. Rodgers
Queens’ Vernacular
81:
Fist fuckers
…those who practice fist fucking.
1973
Oui
(July) 73: Fist Fuckers of America: Their clenched-fist gestures are often an internal expression.
1985
J. Dillinger
Adrenaline
213: How about
Fistfucker Beach?
1993
Folio
(Oct. 15) 57: The organizers [of a gay-rights march in Washington, D.C.] didn’t want the Fist Fuckers of America marching down Pennsylvania Avenue.
1999
“Eurydice”
Satyricon USA
94: The natives patronize corsetries, boutiques that sell Würtenburg wheels, Victorian parlors, Edwardian attics, “handballing soirées,” “electroplay charity fund-raisings.” The streets brim with Gender Variant Folk, Granddaddies and G-spot Mommies, bulldaggers, adult babies, PVC boy-toys and sex-maids, and infinite combinations thereof (top-femme-hookers, butch-bottom-cocksuckers, androgynous leather
doggies, radical bi fistfuckers).
2008
J. D. Lichtenberg
Sensuality & Sexuality across Divide of Shame
12: He reported a dream in which a clear stand-in for me was identified as a fist fucker.

3
. a despicable or contemptible fellow.

1977
in H.S. Thompson
Shark Hunt
602: If that treacherous fist-fucker ever comes back to life, he’ll wish we’d had the good sense to nail him up on a frozen telephone pole.

fist-fucking
noun

1
. male masturbation.

ca
1890
My Secret Life
VI. i.: All day spite of the relief I had given myself by fist fucking, I was as lewd as I could be, mad to see more of her.
ca
890–91
J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley
Slang & Its Analogues
II 402:
Fist-fucking
…masturbation.
1916
H. N. Cary
Slang of Venery
I 85:
Fist fucking
—masturbation.

2
. Especially
Homosexuals
. insertion of the hand into the rectum or vagina for sexual stimulation.

1971
J. F. Hunter
Gay Insider
iii. 36: Kim, when worked up, did like rough treatment. He specifically wanted to be plowed hard, preliminary to fist fucking.
1972
(quotation at
FIST-FUCKER
, definition 2).
1973
Oui
(July) 75: We spent some time discussing fist fucking (“it can be dangerous”).
1981
Film Comment
(May) 21: Oriental beheadings and Occidental gay fistfuckings.
1984
R. J. Avrech & B. De Palma
Body Double
(film): No animal acts, no fist-fucking, and absolutely no coming in my face.
1988
R. Shilts
And the Band Played On
II. ii. 24: “It looks like that guy has his arm up the other guy’s ass.” “He does have an arm up his ass”.… “That’s fist-fucking,” the psychologist said.
1989
S. Chapple & D. Talbot
Burning Desires
260: Videos that did not stop at fist-fucking.
1992
Whole Earth Review
(June 22) 94: “Is ‘perineal massage’ really fist fucking?”…“Of course.”…A hand going inside my pussy is…exciting.
1997
L. Yablonsky
Story of Junk
39: Her specialty was gay male erotica; the idea of fist-fucking gave her a charge.
2001
P. Burston
Shameless
viii. 114: Dressing up in drag? Fist fucking? He already knew that David found his father attractive. What if the E turned his father into a sex maniac? Would he be able to resist David’s advances?

flak

Military Aviation
. (a jocular euphemism for)
FUCK
.

1961
G. Forbes
Goodbye to Some
120 [refers to WWII]: The 38’s will get the flak out of there.
1963
E. M. Miller
Exile
57: “Flak you, fellows,” he said as the door slammed.

flat fuck
noun & verb

among lesbians: a sexual act in which two women lie prone face to face and rub and stimulate each other; (
as verb
) to perform this act.

ca
1890
My Secret Life
IX. vii.: French women were much more free spoken than the English, who mostly said they disliked to touch another woman’s cunt, which I believed was a lie. One or two only, said they’d had a flat fuck with a friend, and what harm was there?
ca
1890
My Secret Life
IX. ix.: Putting them on the top of each other I wanted them to flat fuck—Nelly refused, tho Sophy was ready for it, half screwed when she came and more so now, for I’d taken a bottle of gin with me. However they laid belly on belly with thighs wide apart, their mottes touching, cunt wigs entwining, but clitoris did not touch clitoris.
1970
R. Blake
Porno Movies
169: She got to opening up the other girl’s pussy and they did a flat fuck together.
1980
Maledicta
IV. 197: This practice may best be seen amongst lesbians…who prefer soixante-neuf to a flat fuck.
1998
S. Waters
Tipping Velvet
xviii. 415: “I said,” came a girl’s voice, “‘I only does that sort of thing, sir, with my friends.’ ‘Emily Pettinger,’ he said, ‘said you let her flat fuck you for an hour and a half’—which is a lie, but anyway, ‘Flat fucking is one thing, sir,’ I said, ‘and this quite another. If you want me to —her’”—here she must have made a gesture—“‘you shall have to pay me for it, rather dear.’”

flipping
adjective & adverb

Chiefly
British
. (a euphemism for)
FUCKING
adjective & adverb.

1911
D. H. Lawrence
White Peacock
II. ix. 347: Ain’t it flippin’ ’ot?
1948
C. Day Lewis
Otterbury Incident
i. 2: Flipping heroes, ain’t we all?
1957
J. Kerouac
Letter
(Mar. 19) in
Selected Letters 1957–69
14: In the original version there was no flipping confession and everyone read it and naturally
didn’t miss it.
1959
Spectator
(Nov. 20) 713/3: While terms of approval…change rapidly with the fashion, terms of disapproval (blinking…flippin’ awful…) show very little alteration.
1987
R. Curtis & B. Elton
Blackadder the Third
in R. Curtis et al.
Black-Adder
311/2: Mysterious Northern beauty, Miss Amy Hardwood, comes to London and spends flipping great wodges of cash.
2002
N. Walker
Blackbox
180: Dan told him to mind his own flipping business.

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